Unit Synopsis
In today’s dynamic business environment, leadership and mentoring are game-changers—core skills that elevate consultants from competent to truly impactful. This unit empowers you to develop these essential capabilities, helping you influence change, guide others, and drive purpose-led outcomes. You will explore the power of transformational leadership, learning how to inspire collaborative teams and confidently navigate change. At the same time, you will delve into the art of mentoring—a powerful, long-term approach to supporting growth and development in others while sharpening your own leadership identity. Through real-world case studies and critical reflection, you will examine values, motivation, personality, and the use of power to shape individual and team performance. You will also discover how culture and context influence the effectiveness of different leadership and mentoring styles. Importantly, this unit connects leadership and mentoring to global impact. You will explore how business consultants and organisational leaders—both internal and external—can align with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), turning businesses into catalysts for positive social change while still meeting stakeholder expectations. Whether you are looking to lead teams, grow talent, or drive sustainable business practices, this unit will give you the tools to lead with confidence, purpose, and impact.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Anti-requisite: MGMT29004 Transformational Leadership and Mentoring Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Presentation | 20% |
| 3. Take Home Exam | 40% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 0.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 0% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Informal discussions with student
The unit was reported by the students as very engaging, productive and added to their understanding of transformational leadership in business consulting
The focus of the unit and the materials. The assessments aligned with the graduate attributes expected by the profession.
The unit material such as lecture material (slides and recordings) has been improved and updated. Marking rubrics and assessments will be improved in the next term.
Source: Informal discussions with student
The unit did not include industry guest speakers. Thus limiting students ability to understand how transformational leadership relates to leadership within consulting firms
Future iterations of the unit could include guest speakers from the business consulting profession.
Will coordinate with other UC to develop implement sessions with guest speakers from business consulting profession.
Source: Informal discussions with student
The timing of the workshops were scheduled well to address the needs of students in the workplace
Consideration should be given to continuing to schedule classes late afternoon and early evening
Classes were scheduled for late evening to accommodate the full time working students.
Source: Informal discussions with student
The assessments met the unit requirements and were scaffolded
Future iterations could address the needs of students in the workforce by adopting a two assessment model, rather than three.
The current three-assessment model aims to develop different skills and attributes of students. Assessment 1- individual essay, Assessment 2- Video, and Assessment 3- Take home exam.
Source: Personal reflection
Improve the clarity in assessment material
Re-develop the assessment criteria, information, and marking rubric. Develop this in collaboration with head of course.
In Progress
Source: Personal reflection
Introduce an assessment item for group work
In-lieu of the take-home exam, group work assessment item can be introduced. This assessment can be linked to graduate attributes such as communication, leadership, research, and knowledge.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate the impact of leaders and mentors in different organisational settings and actively reflect on how their practices can drive commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Assess how mentoring and leadership approaches influence employee development and client outcomes in consultancy settings.
- Apply established mentoring and leadership theories—individually and in teams—to effectively identify and address performance challenges and organisational change.
- Demonstrate the ability to interpret and effectively apply knowledge, skills, and concepts related to leadership and mentoring when working with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Critically analyse and reflect on cultural differences in leadership and mentoring and evaluate their implications for followers.
The unit does not link to any specific external professional accreditation.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Presentation | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Take Home Exam | • | • | |||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | |||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | |||
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | |||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |